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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
6:00pm – 8:45pm
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Caltech Associates East Coast Reception & Dinner: Imagining the Robots of Science Fiction

Off Campus
with Aaron Ames, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems
7:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Associates East Coast Event: Challenges for the Next 50 Years of Space Exploration

Off Campus
with Bethany Ehlmann, Professor of Planetary Science and JPL Research Scientist
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 67th Season: "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
2-to-2 Games via expansion on the Grassmann Graph
Dor Minzer, Tel Aviv University,
11:00am – 1:30pm
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Step Up! Employee Empowerment Strategies

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop for Students: Healthy Relationships

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Weight Watchers Open House

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "OnShape"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization: Progress & Challenges
Richard Ellis, University College London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Metals, Minerals, Microbes, and Mussels: The Chemical Biology of Catechol in Siderophores and Adhesive Proteins
Alison Butler, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
2D electron-hole condensate in a van der Waals heterostructure photocell
Nathaniel Gabor, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Digital Light Synthesis to Drive Additive Manufacturing: Convergence of Hardware, Software, and Molecular Science (Technical Lecture)
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and of Chemistry at UNC,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Michael H. Dickinson - "Using the Brain of a Modern Fly to Reconstruct the Behaviors of an Ancient World"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
8:30am – 11:30am
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Mt. Disappointment Hike

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Smaller Than the Eye Can See: Vibration Analysis with Video Cameras
Justin Chen, Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Reading Women

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Amanda Corbett
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Talk by Alum Kevin Gromley
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Vorticies from low-mass planet formation
James Owen, NASA Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Colorado Col. vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Special values of L-functions
Ameya Pitale, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Neutrinos - small particles, big science
Anne Schukraft, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Convergent Research to Address Societal Needs (General Lecture)
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and of Chemistry at UNC,
Friday, February 16th, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
Mario Martone, University of Texas - Austin,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 105
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey, Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
Dan Xie, Harvard University,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wang Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
CANCELLED DUE TO FLU -- TO BE RESCHEDULED
Camille Avestruz, KICP and Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On Renormalized Volume
Franco Vargas Pallete, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Coping Without Avoidance

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Palladium Catalyzed Aromatic C-H Flurination
Kumiko Yamamoto, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Surface Waves, Line Waves, and Chiral Modes for One-Directional Propagation in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Systems
Dan Sievenpiper, Professor, UCSD,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Women in Chemistry

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Diverse Career Paths Panel & Reception
Women in Chemistry ,
Saturday, February 17th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Lewis & Clark

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Discover the Unknown: God is for Our Enjoyment

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. Linfield

3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech-Occidental Wind Orchestra

Off Campus
  • Public Event
Monday, February 19th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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President's Day (Institute Holiday)

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Brandeis vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at George Fox

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
10:30am – 11:30am
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English Conversation Group

Athenaeum
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
TBA
Vagelis Papalexakis, Assistant Professor , Computer Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Join us for a talk on High Blood Pressure and Vascular Dementia

Crellin 151
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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FPTL Playdates

Off Campus
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Moore B270
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
John Martinis, Google,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Krista Soderlund, Research Asscociate, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Dissecting the Neural Circuits for Motivated Behavior"
Garret Stuber, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 122
Special cycles on simple Shimura varieties
Wei Zhang, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Unusual Redox Properties of π-Conjugated, Planar, Anti-Aromatic Hexapyrrolic Porphyrinoids
Chang Hee Lee, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kangwon National University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Between the Sun and the Earth: The Recent History of Heliophysics and Space Weather
Gregory Good, Historian of Earth Science and Director of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Credit Union Annual Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech